Approved by Paul on 5 November 2026: Drive-In only, at most two a week across
it, none when nothing is worthwhile, nothing booked. Seeds come from
franchise collections, event studios (Amicus, Toho, Cannon, Full Moon, AIP,
Ealing, Aardman...), and directors and leading performers with three or more
read films; a seed touching an existing event's films is left out. A bill
needs a coherent theme: one shared genre, one audience (adult horror late,
family on a Saturday, the rest a Friday double), the best films (in story
order for a franchise) clearing a 6.4 average rating. Low-budget cult films
stay eligible for The Late Show. On the box, once a day: missing evidence
read for candidates (bounded), the strongest bills verified film by film
(item, IMDb ID, playable copy), films booked within four weeks or shown on
the Drive-In in the last four left out, evenings free of events, committed
bookings and competing headlines. Every idea shown is kept as history;
dismissed themes stay dismissed unless their films change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
pauljdandClaude Opus 5.5
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